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NUCE 403Advanced Reactor Design

3 credits · Nuclear Engineering · Penn State

Physical principles and computational methods for reactor analysis and design. Multigroup diffusion theory; determination of fast and thermal group constants; cell calculations for heterogeneous core lattices.

Before you enroll

Prerequisites

You need:

Where it fits

Where it sits in degree plans

Suggested plans most often put it in Year 4 · Fall (1 program).

Required in (1)

  • Nuclear Engineering, B.S.
What it opens up

Courses that list NUCE 403 as a prerequisite (1)

  • NUCE 431W Nuclear Reactor Core Design Synthesis